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used to sing in Weller's camp -- to the tune of "Halleluyah, I'm a bum ...."
"Oh [[underline]] why [[/underline]] don't you work
like the other folks do?
- How the [[underline]] hell [[/underline]] can I work
When there's [[underline]] no work to do! [[/underline]]

Well, there is a bit of sleeping to be done.  May I have dreams of calm seas, sunshine, - and Yangasa'!

H.

Namuka, July 11th
Dear John Edward -
We shall now all rise and sing the song beginning -
"Just another day - y -
- wasted away - !

Awoke this morning to a dead calm and ate my tin of salmon 

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while a gentle rain fell straight down.  By 8 [[superscript] 30 [[/superscript]] the rain had stopped.  Willy was optimistically packing a box of grub, etc. for Yangasa' so I took Willy No. 2 & we headed westward across the point to Namlan & thence along the coast to the foot of the highest hill on the south side of the island (240').

The story is that in a cave on top of this hill lie the bones of Namuka's most famous warrior - along with his spear (Tavaiongea).  The old man has become sort of god and all the present generation avoid the spot like the plague.  I left Willy No. 2 collecting land shells near the shore & using a knife, struck inland.  I soon came to a vertical